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Page 18/The Battalion/Thursday, September, 15 1983 Future Aggie? 13-year-old A student held back for football TANK MCNAMARA LOOK.,LAST" VCAR'S FtMMAMT fLOPWf? JUST 6AP BA6&6AU- rf WjA'bM'T CAU&EP gV TEAM'S) REMCA/IKJG 1P46 'SAeqQ? 0UMKER' 50 WJE COULD ‘iGX. MOKE 56AT9 United Press International JUSTIN — Dreams of a college ^ football future have 13-year-old Kyle Burns reliving the past. The tight end for the Northewst Junior High School Texans — a straight A student — is repeating the seventh grade so he can be bigger and stronger than his fellow high school graduates in 1989. r IfiMINflTING TOUGH; DURABLE; PLASTIC COATING Good For: • POST6FSS CLASS PRCSCNTATIONS I.D. CARDS MAPS PHOTOS NCUJSPAPCR CLIPPINGS MINKS PICTUfK FRAMING 923 TEXAS AVE. IN BRYAN 775-9292 Coaches call the practice red- shirting. Young Kyle calls it a maturing process. His father. Clay Bums, calls it a good investment. His mother, Linda Bums, calls it potential academic suicide. “Tm hoping I can mature a bit, ” said the 5-foot-11 Vi, 155pound youth. “I think it will help me be better. ” Kyle, who will be 19 when he finishes his studies at Northwest High School in this small north central Texas town about 25 miles north of Fort Worth, dreams of being a scholarship football player at Texas A&M University. “We didn’t force this on Kyle,” said the youth’s father. “He wants to play for Texas A&M and I want to give him every chance possible. If he doesn’t get a chance at a school like A&M he might get a scholarship at a place like Sam Houston or Angelo State.” Red-shirting has been outlawed in Texas high schools since 1952, when the University Interscholas tic League decreed that once a student enters eighth grade he has just five consecutive years of athletic eligibility left. But the UIL, which governs sports in the state’s public schools, cannot do anything about a seventh-grader, or even younger student, being held back. The practice is legal if it is not initiated by the high school coach. “When you consider the cost of a four-year college I think it is worth it,” the elder Burns said. “I did a lot of looking around at the talent at the major colleges and most of the freshmen they signed were 19 years old. “They had that extra year of maturity,” said Bums, who was a star running back for the North west Texans when they won their last district title in 1962. But Kyle’s mother is dead set against the move. But she has no say in the matter because she is separated from her husband and he has custody of Kyle. “If he gets hurt or something goes wrong, it’s been a wasted year,” she said. “He’s so much bigger than the kids he’s playing with now. He’s a monster. He could hurt someone.” Mrs. Burns said she called the UIL office in Austin this summer to see if she could put a stop to the plan, but she was told she had no recourse. “At first I was for it,” she said. “But now I see it as wrong.” Linebackers ‘whipping pposition for Cowboys United Press Ini WEST HARTF - Police nationw ( Wednesday for a ecurity guard : Irugging two co- tealing more than o United Press International DALLAS — Despite their con tinuing success, the Dallas Cow boys have had a continuing whip ping boy in recent years. Their linebacker play has come in for more than its share of critic ism and that criticism did not let up during this year’s training camp. 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Fort Stockton Coach Tom Landry was as aware of the criticism as much as anybody, so when the Dallas line backers turned in a quality per formance last Sunday against the St. Louis Cardinals, he was quick to point it out. In particular, Landry wanted to call attention to Anthony Dicker- son — starting for the first year at outside linebacker in place of the retired Guy Brown. Dickerson was awarded a game ball for his play Sunday during a game in which the Cowboys helf oft-time nemesis Ottis Anderson to a modest 25 yards in 13 carries. He recorded a quarterback sack, intercepted a pass that changed the momentum of the game and through the first two weeks of the season had been credited with 20 tackles. “The linebackers played one of their best games in some time,” Landry said uesday. "That is a real plus. That is one of the reasons we could control Anderson as well as we did.” Dickerson had been tagged with the reputation of being a top flight athlete who too often free lanced and thus found himself in the wrong position. He could make the spectacular play, but he could also wind up being the goat. Landry said he felt the responsi bility Dickerson now felt as a star ter was a key to his improvement as a player. “Just being in there full time has helped him,” Landry said. “In the past he has lacked consistency more than anything else. “When you get the respu ity to start, you know it is do the job and yourconssi tends to pick up.” The linehacking play li just one of several areas said showed marked ii ment this season and as Di gan preparations for thei home game of the seast coach could find only one a of the club to fault “Our kicking game is iM good,’ he said. "Thisis»i will realy be coneentraiinj' The Cowboys have com given up field position™ and kickoffs and have W success runnin own 20-yard line. "We’ve got some youaj] who really haven't turned selves loose,” Landry said need to really turn going to try to impress i them this week. Theyhavei formed well, but I thinks the second biggest American histo Police and FBI rented car app; doned by the all Victor Gerena, 25 Police said the rol gun on two of his ers, bound and dr then stole the mo The 1974 greer tra was spotted a EDI Tuesday at a the street from a sr Hartford. A shotgun and found in the veh money was recove believed to be shotgun and tw when he left the Armored Service < Hartford State John Bailey said a been issued for Gt and said law enfori ^on r U.S. boxing team expects better judges at next meet > 1SCO United Press International HOUSTON — The coach of the U.S. Olympic boxing team said he expects American boxers to re ceive better treatment in the North American Championships this weekend than a different group did in the Pan American Games. The championship matches, held in 12 weight classes, begin Friday with finals on Sunday. The event, which will feature boxers from seven countries including Cuba an Canada, is being held in Texas for the first time. Coach Pat Nappi said judges were unfair to his boxers who came home from the Pan Amer ican Games in Caracas, Vene zuela, two weeks ago with two gold medals, compared to eight for the Cuban team. “It wasn’t all their fault,” Nappi said of the American’s perform ance. “The judging wasnl We expected to par. decisions go against u^ b ,jj ca ] United Press Inter HOUSTON — A missing for over ten identified by h le of six unclaimed homosexual m rture ring respi lyings of 27 young “It’s hard to accep ;e it’s unreal, kind < a dream,” Joann Wednesday after eded to identify the n, Richard Allen K The teenager’s bod Lunch Specials A large selection awaits you on our luncheon menu. Delicious lunches start as low as $2.95. Happy Hour specials are also served during your lunch. Sushi Bar Experience the many delicacies offered at Tokyo's exc lusive Sushi Bar. Ideal for those looking for a new lunch or dinner experience. 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They willi LTL/lvAd because they know this isi l ping stone to the WorldC Rome,” he said. vdLUrt None of the Pan Amelias members are present. Gold united Press Intern alists Pernell Whitaker and' LUBBOCK — The Howard are nursing iw Rational Golden Spur juries. y to feature railr Nappi said the changes' lceu p 0n t h e early r talent is due to this countryl ^ R anc hing Hei no one amateur national l» ation officials said, the Cubans have. A# John B. Armstron coaches look at many bo# .J executive vice p many competitions to jud^ e Kin g p anc h i nc leading to the 1984 Olyif “I like our system receive the C »ard Friday for his ct cause you’re always loolil i ranc hi n g, officials a new talent. And this systeu! a lot of youngsters an oppoit to make it,” he said. 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